Black mountain goat
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The black mountain goat ( Saphanus piceus ) is a European longhorn beetle .
features
The black mountain goat is solid black, strongly built and 14 to 20 millimeters long. The pronotum is wider than it is long, the antennae are rather short and compact, significantly longer in the males than in the females. The wings are arched at the back. While they run roughly parallel in the males and narrow behind the middle, they widen in the females.
Subspecies
In addition to Saphanus piceus piceus, there is the subspecies Saphanus piceus ganglbaueri Brancsik, 1886, which differs from the nominate form by the lack of longitudinal stripes or ribs on the elytra. She lives in Southeast Europe. Another subspecies is Saphanus piceus bartolonii Sama & Rapuzzi, 1993 from Greece.
distribution
The species has a fairly limited range in the mountains of southern and central Europe. The black mountain goat mainly inhabits the Alps , Abruzzo , the mountains of southeastern Europe, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia as well as the Carpathian Mountains . In Germany it is rarely found in the Alps, in the Alpine foothills, in the Bavarian Forest and in the Ore Mountains.
Way of life
The larva develops in two to three years in damp, shady places in the rootstocks and the lowest parts of hardwood trunks as thick as a thumb or an arm. Hazel, alder, willow, beech, sometimes also spruce or fir are preferred. The Imago appears from June to July. She no longer eats food, sits idly in the leaves or on a trunk during the day and swarms at night.
literature
- Bernhard Klausnitzer / Friedrich Sander: The longhorn beetles of Central Europe . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 499. A. Ziemsen Verlag, GDR Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1981, ISSN 0138-1423
- Adolf Horion : Faunistics of the Central European Beetles, Volume XII: Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles . Überlingen 1974
- NN Plavilstshikov: Determination tables of the European Coleoptera. 100th issue. Cerambycidae: Disteniini. Cerambycini I. Troppau 1931
